How much did UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC grant in FY2021?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

seeknysarc foundedfounded meetmeet criticalcritical intellectualintellectual developmentaldevelopmental disabilities

2020

seriousartsnysarc foundedfounded meetmeet criticalcritical intellectualintellectual developmental

2021

memberscare facilitywarsaw

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2021 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

Under $10k34 grants · $247k
$10k–50k34 grants · $707k
$50k–250k6 grants · $408k

$11,375

Median grant

States reached

$5.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

SALVATION ARMY CANANDAIGUA CORPS$83,998
FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF THE FINGER LAKES$83,962
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF WAYNE$65,133
CLIFTON SPRINGS YMCA$62,678
SALVATION ARMY GENEVA CORPS$58,337
YMCA OF GREATER CANANDAIGUA$54,166
FLACRA$42,084
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE FINGER LAKES$40,800
PHELPS COMMUNITY CENTER$40,001
SALVATION ARMY BATAVIA CORPS$37,039
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GENEVA$30,000
ST VINCENT DEPAUL SOCIETY$29,166
GENEVA FAMILY YMCA$28,334
BIG BROTHERBIG SISTER$28,250
BISHOP SHEEN ECUMENICAL HOUSING$24,587

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $875k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$4.8M · 64 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

64 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2021, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.8M

$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+35%

Still filing today

75%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

FAMILY COUNSELING SERVICE OF THE FINGER LAKES
3× · 2019–2021 · $329k · revenue +374%
CS
CLIFTON SPRINGS YMCA
3× · 2019–2021 · $221k · revenue +97%
CC
COORDINATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
3× · 2019–2021 · $218k · revenue +31%

Funded once

STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITALgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +39%
VV
VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA
one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -52%
OC
ONTARIO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY
one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue -9%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Lockport Cares Inc

The organization provides charitable relief in the form of emergency shelter, material needs, and compassionate care for the homeless and persons in need in the eastern niagara county, new york area.

Education

Humane Society of Genesee County

To provide services to homeless animals

Animals

Central New York Ronald McDonald House

Housing and programs for sick children and their families

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Hospice of Chenango County Inc

To provide end of life care and bereavement counseling to the terminally ill and their families in chenango county, new york.

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Hospice Homes of Genesee and Lapeer

To provide housing and end of life care and support to terminally ill individuals.

Human Services

Home Health Services of Wjcs Inc

Home health services of wjcs is a ny state licensed home care service agency, hhs provides the highest quality services supporting older adults in aging in place while maintaining independence and preserving their dignity.

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Canandaigua Comfort Care Home Inc

To provide a private home for individuals who are in the last few months of their lives.

Health

Unity House of Cayuga County Inc

To provide residential, employment, rehabilitative, case management an alcohol and substance abuse services for persons with mental illness, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and persons recouping from addiction in the finger lakes…

Health

Seneca County Council On Homelessness Inc

Homeless shelter

Human Services

Rochester Child Care Center Inc

To provide high quality and affordable child care to working families within the community.

Human Services

Rochester Management Inc

To provide clean, safe, well maintained, and affordable apartments and townhouses, suitable for anyone, in many locations throughout rochester, new york.

Housing & Shelter

Harbor House of Rochester Inc

To provide temporary lodging for families of adult critical care patients who live outside the rochester, ny area and are receiving care at local hospitals.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Genesee Region Home Care Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Geneva General Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 24. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 14% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 6% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/86

the rest of the field

389/6,134

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

68 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

67/68

Grantees still filing

57/68

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,852,074Human Services$874,752Health$387,213Youth Development$328,836Recreation & Sports$220,494Food & Nutrition$160,644Crime & Legal$113,998

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Greater Rochester AndNY164.9× affinity80 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Greater Rochester And · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Greater Rochester Health Foundation · Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo · Foodlink Inc · Esl Charitable Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Finger Lakes Performing Provider System · Finger Lakes Area Community Endowment · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Rochester Area Community Foundation · Liskmorris Foundation Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: GENESEO PARISH OUTREACH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 141916822 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on GENESEO PARISH OUTREACH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 27% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to United Way of Greater Rochester Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

68 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Greater Rochester Inc?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF GREATER ROCHESTER INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

68 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Greater Rochester Inc?

More from the funding graph